Odontoglossum aurarium (Rchb.f.) Garay 1970 SECTION Lobulatum SERIES Astranthumm
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Photos © courtesy of Erica Morňn de Abad in Peru
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Common Name The Golden Odontoglossum
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia along road cuts in middle to lower elevations wet cloud forests at elevations around 600 to 1900 meters as a medium to just large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with tapered, cylindrical, laterally compressed, longitudinally grooved pseuodbulbs enveloped partially by 4 to 5, imbricating, lowermost leaf-less uppermost leaf-bearing sheaths carrying 2, apical, narrow, elliptic, acute, conduplicate below into the short petiole-like base leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and fall on an axillary, arching to wiry to subpendent, to 80" [to 200 cm] long overall, basally paniculate, many, rather widely spaced, short, almost straight to weakly fractiflex, few flowered side branches, apically racemosew, to 360 flowered inflorescence with apressed, scale-likeshorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying stellate flowers with. slightly recurved apices of the sepals and petals.
Synonyms Collare-stuartense aurarium (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Górniak 2006; Odontoglossum mapiriense Mansf. 1934; Odontoglossum trilobum Schlechter 1921; Oncidium aurarium Rchb.f 1884; Oncidium trilobum [Schlechter] Garay & Stacy 1974
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzanreich Regni Vegetabilis Conspectus Odontoglossum/Oncidium Kranzlin 1922 as Oncidium auraurium drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 139 Bennett & Christenson 1993 as Oncidium auraurium drawing fide; Rudolf Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as Oncidium auraurium; Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium Bakers 2006 asOncidium auraurium; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum plate 139 Bennett & Christenson 1993 as Oncidium auraurium drawing fide; Oncidium Koniger Vol 1 2004 as Oncidium auraurium photo/drawing fide; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005 as Oncidium auraurium; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Odontoglossum auriarium; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 as Oncidium auraurium photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 as Oncidium auraurium photo fide; The Odontoglossum Story Dalstrom, Higgins & Deburghgraeve 2020 photo/drawing fide
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